Agent less solutions

As storage becomes more and more cheap, reliability takes an upper hand with customers. Customers want reliable s/w and one without much memory footprint.

Many storage softwares depend on agent based solution where they run processes and run the software but this has a disadvantage in the form of more memory footprints which basically proves costly for customers with large production environments.

Agentless software is the key to such things where there are no agents or processes running on each host. The agentless softwares are on-demand type of stuff which run processes when data requested get the data and terminate the process. This is usually a good way to get storage data without being dependent on processes which are running continuously and creating memory footprints that grow large over time due to many problems...

So the mantra is "demand data" start process -> get the data and stop process. No slow hosts, reliable data and more defined data rather than look at running processes for ever...which is not possible.

So agentless is more or less being used in many storage softwares like the one from HP and some other new companies.

-- Jayaram